Le Figaro
The Finances of Virtue
Le Figaro's front page led with Lucien Romier's signed column on Raymond Poincaré's draft budget for 1927.
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The Radical Congress
Le Figaro's front page of 13 October 1926 led with Lucien Romier's editorial on the eve of the Radical Party congress at Bordeaux.
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A Few Personal Words
Le Figaro's front page of 12 October 1926 opened with a signed column by Lucien Romier, the paper's director and political editor-in-chief, insisting that effort, policy and responsibilities were shared with François Coty.
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The Odious Maneuver Continues
This Le Figaro front page led with politics and money.
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Politics with Bobbed Hair
Le Figaro's front page of 10 October 1926 opened with P.-B.
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The Genevan Spirit and the League of Nations
Le Figaro's front page of 8 October 1926 mixed impressions from Geneva with domestic politics.
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THE BRITISH COLOSSUS
Le Figaro’s front page of 7 October 1926 previewed the Imperial Conference due to open in London on 19 October.
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The Illzach Sabotage
Le Figaro's front page of 6 October 1926 opened in a Mulhouse courtroom, where a special correspondent described the trial of seven defendants accused of sabotaging Armand Weinmann's factory at Illzach and called the case a crime against labour.
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Historic Verdict
Le Figaro's front page of 5 October 1926 carried an argument against Gustav Stresemann in a short editorial signed "Intérim", "Verdict historique", which insisted that the German foreign minister was wrong to try to clear his country of war guilt and that Italy's decision at the outbreak of war in 1914, taken while still allied to Germany and Austria, settled the matter.
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JUSTICE Needs Judges
This Figaro front page carried three signed opinion pieces on politics.
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The Paradoxes of Franciscan History
This front page set a meditation on sanctity beside two anxious pieces on money.
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English opinion and the inter-Allied debts
Le Figaro's front page of 2 October 1926 set foreign-policy polemic beside domestic finance.
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BASQUE LANDSCAPES 1926
On 1 October 1926 Le Figaro printed a signed essay by André Maurois admiring the French Basque country, where new villas copied the local farmhouse style of white walls, asymmetrical tiled roofs and painted beams; he likened this to great writers who build their style out of everyday speech.
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The Inter-Allied Debts
Le Figaro's front page of 30 September 1926 mixed diplomacy, foreign turmoil and constitutional polemic.
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THE CARTEL CONDEMNED BY THE SOCIALISTS
Le Figaro’s selected columns addressed political authority at home, reconciliation abroad and changes to administrative geography.
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Mr. Poincaré’s programme
Le Figaro’s three columns connect national recovery with the authority and resources needed to sustain it.
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THE DUTY TO TELL THE TRUTH
Le Figaro links the German press’s insistence on innocence over the war with the financial stakes of reparations, arguing that absolution would remove the obligation to pay.
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A forgotten fact…
A wartime recollection stresses French advice on training American staff officers.
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For the local newspaper
The local-press editorial fears that respectable newspapers deprived of secure support will disappear or become dependent on political and private interests.
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The modern region
Romier proposes regions organized around transport and trade, with accessible centers and a balance between local protection and autonomy.
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Politics: the little local train will go no farther!
This partial reading preserves three top-of-column headings: a political metaphor about a little local train going no farther, a third installment labeling the inter-Allied debt settlement a “great injustice,” and a foreign-affairs heading describing an unfortunate episode for Stresemann.
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Inter-allied debts: the great injustice
Under an explicitly critical title, the selected opening sentence disputes the character of France’s supposed debt to the United States.
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A new European order
The selected passages connect European reconciliation to money and security, while the Florida report exposes the uncertainty of disaster news.
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The Dawes Plan and inter-Allied debts
Debt cancellation, opposition to a civic tax and colonial development sit beside one another.
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Franco-German cooperation
The page’s selected arguments connect peace, production and economic bargaining.
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Mr. Stresemann’s tactics
The foreign-affairs editorial interprets Stresemann’s aims after Thoiry while acknowledging the ministers’ discretion.
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Elections to the Council in Geneva
Le Figaro combines a favourable assessment of the League’s Council compromise with the actual election results.
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A period of trials
Romier treats the improved trade balance as a temporary effect of depreciation rather than proof of lasting recovery.
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For reforms that pay
The reform column probes the mismatch between abolished administrative offices and surviving electoral labels, explicitly marking an inference about councillors.
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Inquiry reportedly revealed an anarchist plot
Le Figaro places a disputed anarchist-conspiracy report beside Lucetti’s denial of accomplices.
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Franco-Spanish relations in Morocco and the status of Tangier
Le Figaro examines reports that Spain might link its position in the Rif to possession of Tangier.
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